16 On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work(A) at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.

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31 and whenever burnt offerings were presented to the Lord on the Sabbaths, at the New Moon(A) feasts and at the appointed festivals.(B) They were to serve before the Lord regularly in the proper number and in the way prescribed for them.

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But whoever sacrifices a bull(A)
    is like one who kills a person,
and whoever offers a lamb
    is like one who breaks a dog’s neck;
whoever makes a grain offering
    is like one who presents pig’s(B) blood,
and whoever burns memorial incense(C)
    is like one who worships an idol.
They have chosen their own ways,(D)
    and they delight in their abominations;(E)

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“‘Will you steal(A) and murder,(B) commit adultery(C) and perjury,[a](D) burn incense to Baal(E) and follow other gods(F) you have not known,

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 7:9 Or and swear by false gods

10 and then come and stand(A) before me in this house,(B) which bears my Name, and say, “We are safe”—safe to do all these detestable things?(C)

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